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This VIRTUAL panel invites papers on “Narrative Medicine and Community Empowerment in Asian and Arab Graphic Narratives” for NeMLA 58th Annual Convention to be held on March 6-9, 2027.
The Techno-Material Rhetorics of Food and Cooking Collection Editors
This University of Porto conference marks the 55th anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention. It explores heritage across art, architecture, history, museums, digital culture, tourism, sustainability and communities, making it fully interdisciplinary.
Taking place in Porto, it is held in a city that characterizes the issues at play: a coastal city, a historic maritime centre and Europe’s first protected wine region. Its core is a World Heritage Site and a National Monument of Portugal.
From this unique setting, the conference considers questions of heritage globally.
Publications by UCL Press & Intellect Books.
We are pleased to invite submissions for Environmental Futures and Storytelling: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Literature and Public Policy, to be held at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, on 15–16 January 2027. The conference explores how narratives shape environmental imagination and practice with three broad strands: Imagining Environmental Futures; Narratives, Policy and Environmental Governance; and Storytelling as Environmental Method.
From Unit Chairs:
The religious experience is of significant and acute concern among our varied African diasporic communities and is worthy of close academic exploration and study. The Black Religion & Theology Unit’s mission is to further the development of scholarly research and discussion about the black religious experience; encourage the broadening of Black religion as an academic endeavor; and engage in discourse, from the African diasporic perspective, about religious and theological expression.
I want to be accepted by society…live in a world I don’t have to hide in…make choices without being in constant fear of them destroying me or the ones I care about.” (Ada, liberated TanakX5 robot, on her hopes and dreams. Alex + Ada, Book 11)
“Did I request thee, Maker?”: Contemporary Cyborgs and Androids and Their Pre-Modern Antecedents
The 2027 Conference of the Popular Culture Association (PCA) will host a special topic area on UFOs, Cryptids, Conspiracies, and the Paranormal.
Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary Symposium on “Reproducing Dystopias”
Deadline for Submission: September 7th at 5:00 PM
Institution: The Center for Modern Studies PGR Forum, University of York
Organisers: Brianna Frentzko, University of York (brianna.frentzko@york.ac.uk) and Megan Woodward, University of York (megan.woodward@york.ac.uk)
AP Photo from Jacquelyn Martin (Deadline; 25 June 2022)
About the book: Human machine interfacing can be as simple as pressing a button or as complex and entangled (also entangling) as inserting a brain chip into the skull. science fiction. Humans with implants, prosthetic and hybrid humans with electronic and mechanical extensions are yet another level are no longer science fiction. Yet, human-machine interfacing has started long before the invention of these technologies. Machines did communicate with us and tell us about themselves even before chatbots were invented. The clanking of a hammer on the anvil tells us that it is old and dull. The whistle of a microwave tells us that dinner is ready. The process of interfacing is not a one-way process.
Decadence: Rhetoric and Aesthetics of Decline from Ancient Empire to the Age of Polycrisis
Conference open to scholars of all stages
Venue: British School at Rome, Rome
Dates:21-22nd January 2027
Following a successful symposium in 2025 on the subject of civilisational origins, we are delighted to announce our next event, Decadence, a conference about what happens to civilisations, societies, and cultural movements when they reach and then exceed their peak.
An Edited Volume by
Ruchika Hooda
Assistant Professor at Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University), Ambala
Ms. Diksha
Assistant Professor in the Dept. of English at Chandigarh University, Chandigarh
Cognitive Ecologies: Thinking With, Through, and Against Environments
A Special Issue of The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
Complete articles of up to 5,000 words due 30 September 2026. Personal essays, photo essays, poetry, and translation also invited.
Abstract
In the United States, our lives are marked by an abundance of convenience. From fresh produce year-round to two-day shipping, convenient choices feel soft, easy, and frictionless, as they have specifically been engineered to feel. Until relatively recently, it has been possible to maintain a cultural and systemic sense of alienation that makes the cost of our convenience invisible to us—to localize all of the necessary precarity and exploitation for convenience “somewhere else,” (often in the Global South) and then to ignore it.
Alternative Edens: “Whole Earth” Imagination and the Politics of Hospitality
Panel at the 2026 SAMLA Conference (Nov. 5-7, 2026 Atlanta, GA)
Due date for paper proposals: September 1, 2026
Submission link: https://samla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19711
Appropriately for a word broadly defined as “having a mixed character,” the idea of “hybridity” has elicited contradictory interpretation since its inception in the Greek word hybris. While the word could mean miscegenation, shame, wantonness, outrage, and even violence, the term carried the alternate but equally valid connotation of thinking and moving beyond human limitations. Despite a shift fromclassical beliefs through Christianity, hybrid figures such as the centaur and satyr continued to proliferate throughout the Renaissance, evoking both wonder and terror. While sometimes considered blasphemous, these classical hybrids were also allegorized to fit into Renaissance ethical and religious frameworks.
This panel seeks to explore the precariousness of media, from its physical integrity and digital ephemerality to the complications of human-machine interaction and the elided histories of players, users, fans, and tech developers. With the current encroachment of generative AI in the workplace, media production, information circulation, fan reception, real estate, and the environment, it becomes urgent to question how precariousness underlies the development, deployment, and dissipation of past media.
2027 Imagining Sustainable Worlds Online Symposium, 12–13 May 2027
We invite proposals for 2027 Imagining Sustainable Worlds, an annual online symposium in the Common Ground Imagining Futures Series, taking place 12–13 May 2027, online on CGScholar.
The symposium brings together scholars, researchers, designers, planners, educators, policy thinkers, practitioners, health and care professionals, environmental researchers, and community-engaged professionals working across questions of sustainability, climate, infrastructure, food systems, mobility, aging, health, wellbeing, and the built environment. We welcome proposals that explore how sustainable worlds are designed, inhabited, maintained, challenged, and transformed.
Call for Chapter Proposals for an Edited Book
Digital Precarity and Speculative Narratives in the South Asian Context
CFP Reminder:
Special Session: Cultural Patrimony in Wartime: Destruction, Protection, and the Question of Ruling Classes
123rd Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
Submission process:
Please send a 300-word abstract and a short bio (100 words) to amazuet@stanford.edu.
Final extended submission deadline: July 15, 2026.
I would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the TG07 Senses and Society session, “Outside the Climatic Environmental Bubble: Sensing Climate Change at the Margins”, within the XXI International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, which will be held in Gwangju, Korea, from July 4th - July 10th 2027.
Session Description
Oceanography & the Blue Humanities: Literary Geographies of Islands and Water Bodies
December 09-12, 2026
Concept Note:
Reflection is a key part of Community-Engaged Learning (CEL), but it is not always used in ways that fully support student learning. This panel will look at how reflection can be designed more intentionally to help students think more deeply about their experiences in community settings. Rather than simply describing what they did, students can use reflection to connect their experiences, academic learning, and larger social issues.
LIFE at its Limits: Medicine, Literature, Philosophy
Department of English Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
10–12 December 2026
CFP: Smell Studies Journal
General Editors: Will Tullett, University of York and Manon Raffard, University of Manchester.
Editorial board: Andrew Kettler, Chanelle Dupuis, Jayanthan Sriram, Ally Louks, Hsuan Hsu, Sandra Barré.
Centre for Science, Technology, and Society Studies at the Czech Academy of Sciences invites prospective participants to submit abstracts for presentation at the international research symposium Novelty and Inequalities in Science, to be held in Prague, Czechia, on October 8-9, 2026.
Novelty and Inequalities in Science
International Research Symposium on Recognizing and Rewarding Novelty in Science
October 8-9, 2026 Prague, Czechia
Submit abstract of 150-300 words or find more information here:
https://stss.flu.cas.cz/novelty2026
Call for Abstracts
Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature invites article submissions on the topic of “planetary precarity” for its Winter 2027 issue. This special issue will consider how precarity is produced on both local and global scales. As we confront our own possible extinction-level threats caused by climate disaster and, supposedly, a future dominated by artificial superintelligence, we seek to investigate how the Victorians reconceived their own precarity in the face of extractive capitalism and ecological crisis.
CFP: Smell Studies Journal
General Editors: Will Tullett, University of York and Manon Raffard, University of Manchester.
Editorial board: Andrew Kettler, Chanelle Dupuis, Jayanthan Sriram, Ally Louks, Hsuan Hsu, Sandra Barré.
This panel considers the often overlooked presence of flora and fauna in early modern print, whether they appear as marginalia, within printers’ ornaments, or as materially integral to books. Animals and plants always carry symbolic value—a single image sometimes carrying diametrically opposed values—and participate in a broader network of signification through emblems, printers’ ornaments, marginalia, and engraven images. Do those values come into tension with each other via the margin, the marginal, and the marginalized? In what ways do peripheral plants and animals comment on questions of identity, like gender, race, or disability?
“Science and Sensibility: Method Meets Art”
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Date: October 17-18, 2026
Location: University of Oxford, UK and online
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/06/15/science-and-sensibility-2026/